Let any mal. if he cal. show that the proposition that I have made is not well founded. let any man show. if he can. that the effect of this is not to so change existing law as to deny to the people of the South the small opportunity they now have to meet this great. this pressing. this vital demand for labor. Mr. President. we all of us sympathize in the desire that improper immigration shall not come to this country: There is a great deal in this bill that I most heartily approve in that regard in the exclusion of improper persons. I join Senators full handed in any effort to exclude from this country improper persons. There is also a great deal to sympathize with in the demand that we shall not have an undue competition with our labor by the introduction of foreign labor.
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